Police chief promises change in Nablus "Abdul Sattar Qassem is a professor at Nablus University. He hopes but doubts that the gunmen can be beaten. "They are everywhere," he said in exasperation. "You go to the grocer's, they're there. At the university, they're there, with their guns. They're all over the marketplace." Internal disintegration An underdeveloped economy, no monopoly of legitimate force.